Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [adv] fast [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New research by the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has shown ozone depletion to be occurring twice as fast as previously thought . |
| 2 | I 'm getting there as fast as I can . |
| 3 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 4 | Ions are fine for probing electrically conducting materials because the charge they carry to the specimen is carried away as fast as it builds up . |
| 5 | Fortunately , telecommunication technology is developing almost as fast as silicon chip technology and is expected to be able to meet the demands that will be made on it by computers and microelectronics over the next few years . |
| 6 | IF ANYTHING is falling apart as fast as Britain 's Victorian infrastructure it is Britain 's post-war infrastructure . |
| 7 | The European zone , for example , was growing twice as fast as the United States ' zone , and now employed a quarter of a million people . |
| 8 | And those beetles of yours — the ones that could n't get home because the sheet was moving almost as fast as they could walk — that must be how it is for light moving through our space . |
| 9 | She thrust the paper across the desk , then was gone almost as fast as she 'd come . |